With much anticipation, the Michigan National Guard has been preparing for the accredited Exercise Northern Strike 2017 after such outstanding success from last years Northern Strike 2016. While Northern Strike 16 was known for the nations largest multinational life fire exercise, Maj. Gen. Gregory Vadnasis and the Michigan National Guard work hard to ensure the […]

A C-130 Hercules flies by the Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain training facility at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center while a member of the 118th Security Forces Squadron, Tennessee Air National Guard, participates in a training exercise during Northern Strike 16, Aug. 12, 2016. Northern Strike 16 is a National Guard Bureau-sponsored exercise uniting […]

Spc. Paul St. Pierre works with laundry machines as a member of the 464th Quartermaster Company, a Michigan National Guard unit based in Lapeer, Michigan, Aug. 10, 2016. Northern Strike 16 is a National Guard Bureau-sponsored exercise uniting approximately 5,000 Army, Air Force, Marine, and Special Forces service members from 20 states and three coalition […]

Pfc. Brent Kearns, a Soldier with the 1171st Area Support Medical Company, performs chest compressions on a training mannequin, Aug. 10, 2016, at the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center’s North Forward Operating Base during annual training. Lt. Col. Laura Svinarich, a physician’s assistant with the 127th Medical Group from Selfridge Air National Guard Base, […]

Staff Sgt. Patricia Starks stands by a sample communications schematic set up near the Combat Readiness Training Center in Alpena, Mich., Aug. 9, 2016, for exercise Northern Strike 2016. Northern Strike 16 is a National Guard Bureau-sponsored exercise uniting approximately 5,000 Army, Air Force, Marine, and Special Forces service members from 20 states and three […]

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is greeted by the Adjutant General of the Michigan National Guard, Maj. Gen. Gregory Vadnais, to begin a tour of training exercises being conducted during Northern Strike 2016 at the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center in Grayling, and the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center in Alpena, Aug. 10, 2016. Northern […]

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